Municipio Múgica

Múgica
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Michoacan
Seat	Nueva Italia de Ruiz
surface	378.7 km²
Residents	44,963 (2010)
density	118.7 inhabitants per km²
founding	1942
Website	ayuntamientomugica.gob.mx
INEGI no.	16055
politics
Presidente municipal	Salvador Ruiz Ruiz

19.02729 -102.09081Coordinates: 19 ° 2 ′ N , 102 ° 5 ′ W

Múgica is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán in the Infiernillo region . The municipality had 44,963 inhabitants at the 2010 census; the area of the municipality is 378.7 km². The largest place in the municipality and administrative seat is Nueva Italia de Ruiz .

Múgica is named after Francisco José Múgica , a Mexican revolutionary and politician.

geography

The Municipio Múgica is located slightly south of the center of the Mexican state Michoacán at heights between 200 m and 700 m in the Infiernillo region . It is 82% in the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre del Sur and 18% in the Sierra Volcánica Transversal and entirely in the hydrological region of Balsas . The geology of the Municipalities is 32% of sandstone - conglomerate determined at 26% each alluvium and tuff and 10% basalt ; the predominant soil types are vertisol (69%) and calcisol (24%). About 65% of the community area is used as pasture land, about 21% is forested.

The Municipio Múgica borders the Municipios Parácuaro , Gabriel Zamora and La Huacana .

population

The 2010 census counted 44,963 people in 10,830 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 108 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . Almost 14 percent of the population were illiterate. 17,617 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 72% were men or 1.9% were unemployed. 25% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Múgica comprises 52 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Gámbara are classified as urban by INEGI . Five of the places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 41 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Nueva Italia de Ruiz	32,467
Gámbara	03,017
El Ceñidor	02,235
El Letrero	01,859
Cuatro Caminos	01,194
Estación Nueva Italia	00.814
Nuevo Capirio	00.785

Web links

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Múgica (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Múgica (Spanish; PDF)